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Remove Extended Attributes on Mac

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If you have a file with @ sign at end, this is how to remove extended attributes on the Mac OS.

Example.

ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x@  4 username  staff   128 Mar 24 10:51 sample.txt

Remove extended attributes.

xattr -c sample.txt

Result

ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x  4 username  staff   128 Mar 24 10:51 sample.txt

GCP Backup Instance

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Here’s the script to backup GCP disks.

#!/bin/bash
now=$(date +%s)
disks=$(gcloud compute disks list --project project-id --filter="users:instance" --format="value(name)")
for disk in $disks
do
  gcloud compute disks snapshot $disk \
  --snapshot-names=$disk-$now \
  --zone=us-central1-a \
  --project=project-id \
  --async
done

Vi Search and Replace

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How to do search and replace in Vim.

Search for “foo” and replace it with “bar” in the current line. Use :s

:s/foo/bar/g

Search for “foo” and replace it with “bar” in the entire document. Use :%s

:%s/foo/bar/g

You can also pipe instead of forward slash. Useful if your search contains a /.

:%s|foo/|bar|g

Redhat 8 Network Manager

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In Redhat 8, every time you the Network Manager get’s restarted it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf. To prevent that from hapenning, create a new file called /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/90-dns-none.conf and add the following lines. Restart Network Manager. Your /etc/resolv.conf should be unchanged.

[main]
dns=none

Restart Network Manager

$ systemctl reload NetworkManager

GCP Project Quotas

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Here’s how to get your project quotas in GCP.

gcloud compute project-info describe --project your-project-id

GCP Regional Quotas

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Here’s how to get Regional Quotas for your project in GCP.

gcloud compute regions describe us-central1 --project your-project-id